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. HONEY LOCUST. Eventually the most important thing I ever did may 
be the introduction of the honey locust as a forage crop. The way the 
honey locusts clustered themselves with long pods of beans is very suggestive of 
a great new forage crop and possibly also a commercial sugar crop. (see book 
Tree Crops by J. Russell Smith, out of print, try good library). Big fat sugary 
pods hang in masses and ripened on test trees of both varieties that we offer. 
They have proved themselves in the Philadelphia climate. If you have a cow let 
her have a little fun. She likes candy as well as any-girl. If you keep livestock in 
the pasture where these trees grow you will have to get up early in the morning 
if you expect to find any beans on the ground. They will have been eaten at 
- dawn by the quadrupeds. Varieties: Calhoun and Millwood. No known difference 
_ between these two varieties as yet. The pods have been analyzed and found to 
contain 30% of sugar. That is the reason they are devoured:so greedily. 
_ These trees are precocious. Some produce beans when 10 feet in height. We 
have some 8-10 foot trees that can be planted in pastures above the reach of 
cows and therefore without special protection. I put out a row last year in my 
own cow pasture, in sod. There was a bad drought and not a large loss. Write 
for special prices for a field planting. Experiments show that pastures with gen- 
tle shade produce best. This result was obtained by the Tennessee station. 
Plant 35 to 50 feet apart in pastures. You will get just as much grass or 
more and lots of corn substitute besides. The open top of their feathery foliage 
lets light through to the grass. 
Some that I have planted in pasture have produced beans while the trees 
were very small. It is a very easy tree to transplant. My stocks are grown on 
Nebraska seedlings, accustomed to drought. 
The tree has sprawling habits and the trees you buy may seem crooked, but 
their intentions are honorable and the promise of harvests is good. .- 
4 FILBERTS—For a long while I turned up.my nose at filberts but I had 
a few trees. At last the handsome way they grow won my attention. 
Picking up the nuts won my affection. Eating them confirmed it, and now I’m 
an enthusiast starting a test orchard and selling the proved standard varieties. 
Na Try some. They are intimate yard trees and very good screens. 
- Barcelona is the heavy bearer and Du Chilly and several others are :pollena- 
tors. You must have both. Please order Barcelona and pollenator. One pollenator 
to half a dozen Barcelonas is all right. Two are better. Plant six feet apart for a 
screen, fifteen to twenty feet apart in the open. 
HAZEL NUT. Sold out. See us next fall. 
NEW SHAGBARKS. THINNER SHELLS, BIG KERNELS 
6 Perhaps you remember the long scales of bark on a tree that some call- 
ed shellbark and others called shagbark (Carya ovata to be exact). You 
picked up the nuts with delight. 
They were pretty, the flavor delicious, and you had difficulty in getting the 
kernels. Well, that’s over. Enthusiastic members of the Northern Nut Growers 
Association have searched the woods from Canada to Carolina and found the 
master trees. The shagbarks we sell will give you most of their kernels in halves. 
These are genius trees. ct 
If you fertilize the trees you will be surprised at the speed with which the 
shagbarks grow. I’ve seen them make 3 feet in a season. We have eight varieties 
but let us select. . 
A sure thing for the north. Don’t miss this beautiful tree, unquestionably 
hardy and with nuts of unrivalled flavor. The parent trees are scattered all the 
-way from the Great Smoky Mountains to Ontario and. Wisconsin. Unless you 
know a lot about hickories the way to order is to give us your latitude and alti- 
tude and let us select the varieties. One of the dangers in moving trees is to get 
them too far north or south of the home of the parent tree. 30 feet apart. 
7 _ PECANS. Sold out. Try us in the fall. 
5" 8 BLACK WALNUT. Stock very low. These are the nuts that keep their 
- @ flavor in cooking. The black walnut is a majestic and useful tree. 

